This week in our Farm Fresh Tuesday Blog Hop, our featured post is all about harvesting and curing onions! Scroll down to find out more! Growing Onions How often do you buy onions at the store? I know that before I started growing my own, I bought them almost weekly! Onions are just one of those vegetables that a lot of people don’t think about growing. If people do decide to grow onions, they just stick a few in and eat them fresh! I do that with sweet onions, but I personally like to grow enough onions to…
Christmas in July is almost here! In this post I will be sharing and keeping up to date, all the Amazon Prime Day Deals for Homesteaders and Gardeners! Are You Ready for Prime Day? Amazon Prime Days this year are July 15 & 16 2019. This is like Black Friday on Amazon folks! Deals are offered all day to Prime Members, and this year it is for two whole days! 48 Hours of Deals folks! Beginning at 3:00AM Eastern time on July 15th! I will be checking in here often to keep a list of ongoing Prime Day Deals…
Do you need some ideas on what to make for dinner using fresh ingredients from the garden or from your CSA box? Than you are in the right place! Today I will be sharing several ideas to help you in planning dinner from the garden harvest! Meal Planning and Garden Harvest With our first real garden harvest picked just the other day, I was trying to figure out how to use it for dinner. As a result, I was inspired this week to share as my featured articles on today’s blog hop, other recipes shared in our Farm…
When is it time to harvest your garlic? Today I will share the clues you need to know it is time! Today we are talking all about how and when to harvest garlic as well as how to cure and store garlic! How Long Does Garlic Take to Grow? For the largest garlic cloves, garlic seed which is actually just garlic cloves, should be planted in the fall, before the first hard freeze. Because of this, I like to think of planting garlic, as the beginning of a new growing year. In our neck of the woods, zone 8b outside…
Do you have a rat problem? Unfortunately, due to feeding livestock, rats find homesteads a great place to move in. Today my featured post talks all about how to get rid of rats on the homestead! Are Rats Invading Your Farm or Homestead? Rats are my nemesis right now. We have a new neighbor, who bought the 5 acre wooded lot behind us, and they have begun building their house. After they cleared the area for their house, we noticed a huge uptick in rats on our homestead! When I saw Chelsea’s post from The Green Acre Homestead…
Do you love tomatoes? Would you like to double or triple how many tomato plants you are growing for FREE? Today, I will be sharing tips on how to get free tomato plants from pruning the suckers, found in our featured post this week! Growing Tomato Plants from Seed Are you a tomato lover like me? I LOVE me some home grown tomatoes! I can never get enough! Every year I grow my tomatoes from seed, and have a lot of great tips here in my Seed Sowing 101: Planting Tomato Seed article. I also go over how I transplant…